The founder of TGA denied that E3 had been "crushed" by the summer game festival, saying it was his own fault for its decline
CTOnews.com, June 6 (Xinhua)-- E3 game shows were once talked about by players, but now their status is declining and has been replaced by other large game shows and their own face-to-face meetings.
In a recent interview with the media VGC, Geoff Keighley, founder of the Summer Game Festival and TGA, refuted the media's argument that the summer game festival led to the decline of the E3 game show.
Before the ▲ Summer Game Festival, the E3 game show was cancelled in 2020, changed to an online exhibition in 2021, and was cancelled again in 2022 due to manufacturer participation and epidemic problems. Affected by the ever-changing situation before, this year, a number of important game console developers (including Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, Ubisoft, Sega) have announced that they will no longer participate in the exhibition and hold their own press conferences instead, in order to reduce costs and maximize the attraction of fans to watch unilaterally. And because of the lack of game manufacturers, the E3 game show in 2023 was eventually cancelled.
Geoff Keighley said that "the decline of E3 is self-inflicted", adding that "he actually created the summer game festival because he felt sorry and helpless about the predicament of the E3 game show." When the E3 game show was cancelled in 2023, he tweeted that "he created the summer game festival because he realized that the E3 game show had not developed."
▲ Touyuan Geoff KeighleyGeoff Keighley also pointed out that the E3 game show does face the problem of insufficient participation of all game manufacturers in recent years, so he said that "the form of game display activities will change regardless of whether there is a summer game world or not, but without this game festival, the situation will only get worse."as more and more game companies move to host their own events. Consumers and game manufacturers are less interested in third-party-run game festivals.
▲ Summer Games Festival according to Keighley, the decline of E3 is more due to "the lack of exhibitors" and "organizers seem unable to meet the needs of the new digital age." CTOnews.com believes that although the plan for the E3 game show in 2024 is still unknown, the vast majority of game manufacturers have moved to hold their own press conferences, and many parties have lost confidence in the E3 game show, so the decline of the E3 game show is probably unexpected and reasonable.
